The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 360 - Washed-Up Psychos

00:00:00.100 President Trump spends his waning hours with the Queen mean-tweeting a washed-up singer from the 70s.

00:00:06.720 Joe Biden does the one thing he wasn't supposed to do,

00:00:09.320 and Steven Crowder wins his censorship fight with YouTube for now.

00:00:13.120 Then, a 17-year-old girl in the Netherlands commits suicide

00:00:16.880 with the blessing of the Dutch government and her family.

00:00:20.100 We examine the limits of individual liberty.

00:00:22.520 That and much more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 This suicide story, this question of euthanasia,

00:00:36.360 where the limits of individual liberty are,

00:00:39.600 and where the government should step in, where family should step in,

00:00:42.780 what life means in society.

00:00:44.360 This is the biggest story of the day, but it's certainly not the most enjoyable story.

00:00:48.380 So we will begin with maybe my favorite tweet the president has ever sent.

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00:02:34.060 This tweet that came out yesterday.

00:02:37.300 Donald Trump is in the United Kingdom.

00:02:40.320 It is 1.30 in the morning.

00:02:42.460 He's on this royal visit.

00:02:43.600 He's with the Queen.

00:02:44.460 And he sent out one of these tweets that makes his entire presidency worth it, completely worth it.

00:02:52.040 It's been a good presidency.

00:02:53.320 You know, I mean, there have been great victories, some of the judges, some of the legislation.

00:02:58.340 But every so often, President Trump loses me on some aspect of policy.

00:03:02.920 You know, when he talks about how we need way, way more immigration, we need to increase legal immigration.

00:03:07.960 You think, well, most of the country actually opposes that.

00:03:10.360 Or when the wall doesn't get built as it's supposed to get built.

00:03:13.320 Or when they focus on some crime bill like they did in December to try to empty out all the prisons.

00:03:19.180 There's sometimes, I'm saying, as much as I enjoy this administration, sometimes he loses me on policy.

00:03:23.940 And then I read tweets like this, and I am basically ready to dissolve the Congress, amend the Constitution, and make him president for life.

00:03:32.940 If we can get this kind of high-quality content into the foreseeable future, he needs to remain president forever.

00:03:40.600 This is what he tweets.

00:03:41.680 While he's hanging out with the Queen, 1.30 in the United Kingdom.

00:03:45.860 Quote, 0.96

00:03:46.200 So from now on, I'm only calling my opponents washed-up psychos. 0.97

00:04:11.240 What a great line. 0.97

00:04:12.220 This, this is why we are here.

00:04:16.200 Are we not entertained?

00:04:17.160 Is this not why we have come?

00:04:19.760 What happened here?

00:04:20.940 Bette Midler, who many people might not even know who she is anymore. 0.97

00:04:23.920 She was a very famous singer in the 70s and 80s.

00:04:26.500 And she, she actually is pretty washed up at this point, to give Trump credit.

00:04:32.080 She has been ranting about the president for years now.

00:04:35.780 I mean, well before he ever ran for office. 0.99

00:04:37.720 And she shared this meme of him, which is one of these stupid memes that goes around the internet. 0.98

00:04:43.660 And it was a picture of Trump, and it had this quote beneath it, which said, 1.00

00:04:48.040 If I were to run for president, I'd run as a Republican, because their voters are completely stupid, 1.00

00:04:52.820 and they believe whatever Fox News tells them. 1.00

00:04:55.240 Something like that.

00:04:56.180 This is ironic, of course, because Bette Midler is sharing a meme that is not true,

00:05:03.260 because she believes whatever fake left-wing websites tell her. 0.91

00:05:05.760 So she's actually kind of embodying the criticism she's lobbying at Republicans here. 0.99

00:05:10.220 So she tweets this out, and Donald Trump just eviscerates her.

00:05:16.520 He clearly had too much propriety while he was in the UK. 0.92

00:05:19.500 He was wearing that silly white tie and tails, and he'd been, you know, 0.93

00:05:23.720 keeping his manners up very nicely with the Queen. 0.94

00:05:26.160 So he just needed some of those good New Yorker mean tweets at night.

00:05:29.300 And he tweets this out, and she loses it.

00:05:31.300 And she then responds and says, quote,

00:05:33.920 He actually looks better here.

00:05:36.420 Maybe someone in his camp can gently give him a shiv. 0.98

00:05:40.600 I mean a shove.

00:05:42.080 It's a picture of Trump. 0.99

00:05:43.200 She's saying someone should give him a shiv, like something to stab him with. 0.99

00:05:46.620 Oh, I mean a shove. 0.91

00:05:48.100 So what's funny about this little interaction, you're talking about three tweets, right? 0.97

00:05:51.900 She sends out her fake meme, then he calls her a washed-up psycho, 0.99

00:05:55.580 and then she says that someone should stab him. 0.98

00:05:58.660 And it proves, again, that Donald Trump is the king of branding people, 1.00

00:06:02.700 because she is behaving like a psycho. 1.00

00:06:05.640 She is washed up in the sense that she's just not as popular as she was many decades ago. 0.99

00:06:11.200 And she's behaving like a psycho. 1.00

00:06:13.000 She sends out a fake tweet. 0.99

00:06:14.240 He makes fun of her. 0.99

00:06:15.300 She says that we need to murder the president. 0.53

00:06:16.820 But either he's got a real keen insight into who people are, 0.92

00:06:23.480 or he's just got this magical power where he forces people to behave in the way that he wants them to behave.

00:06:29.100 The big political takeaway from all of this, though,

00:06:31.780 does not have to do with Bette Midler or 1970s Broadway stars or any of that.

00:06:36.240 What it has to do with is eternally true political advice.

00:06:40.340 The best defense is a good offense.

00:06:43.000 These days, we're seeing a lot of candidates who are getting this backwards.

00:06:48.680 They think we're going to play it safe.

00:06:50.060 Just don't rock the boat too much.

00:06:51.800 This is kind of the idea of the Mitt Romney 2012 presidential campaign.

00:06:56.180 He said, we're not going to go on offense ever.

00:06:58.700 We're just going to play it really safe.

00:07:00.320 The economy under Obama is so bad, and we're going to win the presidency by default.

00:07:03.900 And what happened?

00:07:04.560 He lost.

00:07:06.160 That's what happens.

00:07:07.740 The John McCain 2008 campaign.

00:07:09.440 He suspended his campaign.

00:07:10.700 He wanted to seem like the really nice, peaceable, elder statesman.

00:07:14.980 So he actually, during the financial crisis, stopped campaigning.

00:07:18.420 He stopped going on the offensive.

00:07:20.400 Obama went on the offensive the whole time.

00:07:22.000 Obama won the election.

00:07:23.940 President Trump understands this.

00:07:25.620 He understands that you always have to be on the attack.

00:07:28.820 When political campaigns try to hold back, when they try to be circumspect,

00:07:32.140 when they try to be too clever by half, they lose.

00:07:34.560 And when you are attacking all the time, you win.

00:07:37.060 You tend to win.

00:07:37.760 Some conservatives say that this sort of behavior is unpresidential, calling 1970s singers washed-up psychos.

00:07:45.380 It's unpresidential.

00:07:46.680 I get why people think that.

00:07:48.860 I get why people have that reaction.

00:07:50.580 But it just isn't true.

00:07:52.260 It is not borne out in history.

00:07:54.920 John Adams, back in the good, old, civilized, old-timey days in the 19th century,

00:07:59.740 John Adams referred to Alexander Hamilton, a member of his own political party, a fellow federalist. 0.99

00:08:07.820 He referred to him as the bastard brat of a Scotch peddler for whom there were not enough whores in Philadelphia to contain his secretions. 0.99

00:08:19.880 That's way worse than anything Trump just said about Bette Midler. 1.00

00:08:22.680 That is way more disgusting and mean and crass and cruel. 0.96

00:08:28.660 And that was said by a founding father of our country about another founding father of our country. 0.64

00:08:34.960 John Quincy Adams, John Adams' son and another president, said of Thomas Jefferson, another president, founding father, author of the Declaration, 0.87

00:08:42.220 quote, that Jefferson was a slur upon the moral government of the world, also worse than calling someone a washed-up psycho.

00:08:52.760 In another case, a little later on, U.S. Senator William E. Jenner said of the New York governor, W. Avril Harriman, very famous governor,

00:09:01.340 he's thin, boys, he's thin as, I'll clean up the language a little, he's thin as urine on a hot rock. 0.99

00:09:07.520 Okay, Harry Truman, former president, said of Richard Nixon, future president, he's a no-good lying bastard. 1.00

00:09:17.260 Secretary of State Dean Acheson on future president Lyndon Baines Johnson, he's a real centaur, part man, part horse's ass. 0.99

00:09:25.860 Andrew Jackson, Andrew Jackson, another very famous president, he's the man on the $20 bill, he said, quote, 0.98

00:09:31.560 I have only two regrets. I didn't shoot Henry Clay, and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.

00:09:38.640 By the way, John C. Calhoun was his own vice president.

00:09:43.100 That's pretty bad. That's not only worse than what Donald Trump said about Bette Midler,

00:09:47.400 that's worse than what Bette Midler said about Donald Trump, which is that she wanted someone to shiv him. 1.00

00:09:51.820 He's saying he wanted to shoot Henry Clay and hang John C. Calhoun.

00:09:56.100 President Trump is rhetorically relatively tame compared to these two guys.

00:10:01.700 What does it tell us? It tells us you don't win elections by being timid.

00:10:07.000 You don't win elections by being a really nice guy.

00:10:10.100 You don't win elections by holding back and being strategic and playing it safe.

00:10:14.920 It doesn't happen. And this is what Joe Biden is hoping to do.

00:10:19.140 Joe Biden, unsurprisingly, has learned every wrong lesson of history.

00:10:23.840 Not the brightest bulb in the shed, well-known plagiarist.

00:10:27.260 He's lied about his academic transcripts, graduated toward the bottom of his law school class.

00:10:31.700 Joe Biden thinks that he's going to become president by hiding.

00:10:36.080 So then he'll become president by default.

00:10:39.400 He'll get the nomination by default.

00:10:40.960 And then he's basically trying to do the Mitt Romney strategy.

00:10:43.780 What did he do? He didn't show up to campaign events on Memorial Day.

00:10:48.120 Memorial Day is a major campaign event, or campaign events all over the country.

00:10:51.660 He didn't show up to the California Democrat convention.

00:10:55.340 Fourteen other Democrat candidates spoke at that convention.

00:10:58.720 A 15th candidate showed up, though she didn't get a speaking spot. 0.95

00:11:01.840 And yet, Joe Biden is still at 32% in the polls.

00:11:04.480 So he still has this commanding lead over all the other candidates.

00:11:08.440 Number two, a far distant second, is Bernie Sanders, who's now crept up to 18%.

00:11:13.060 Everyone else is down there at 7%, 5%, 3%.

00:11:16.780 Okay, so this is good news for Biden.

00:11:19.960 Doug Schoen, the pollster and political consultant, he was writing at Fox News that this is proof that the Biden strategy is working.

00:11:28.320 I don't think it's proof that it's working.

00:11:30.180 Because if you compare Joe Biden's very solid poll numbers today to where they were when he announced his campaign just in April, they're way down.

00:11:39.280 He's lost seven percentage points since then.

00:11:41.160 We haven't even gotten to the first Democratic debate yet.

00:11:44.780 He can't afford to keep hemorrhaging all of those points.

00:11:47.660 He's laying low.

00:11:48.560 He's trying to do the Rudy Giuliani strategy.

00:11:51.500 We will show the problem, the pickle that Joe Biden is in.

00:11:54.940 Then we will get to many more stories.

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00:13:37.240 So Joe Biden, Joe Biden, he would never think to protect any of his information.

00:13:43.360 Don't be like Joe Biden.

00:13:44.400 You know, Joe Biden wouldn't think about this.

00:13:45.820 He's making the exact same mistakes that he made in 1988 when he ran.

00:13:51.460 1988, 98, 2008, 2018.

00:13:55.720 We're talking about over three decades later, he makes the same exact mistake.

00:14:00.240 So he's currently laying low.

00:14:02.300 He's doing the Rudy Giuliani thing.

00:14:03.620 Don't forget, in early 2008 campaign, Rudy Giuliani was the frontrunner.

00:14:08.000 He had a commanding lead over the distant number two choice, which was John McCain.

00:14:13.880 And then what happened?

00:14:14.620 Rudy Giuliani didn't show up.

00:14:17.020 He was going to skip certain states.

00:14:19.060 He wasn't going to.

00:14:20.000 And what happened?

00:14:20.800 Rudy Giuliani certainly never became president.

00:14:23.200 Joe Biden risks that too.

00:14:24.420 So he knows that he's got to go out there.

00:14:26.200 He knows that he's got to do something.

00:14:28.720 The trouble is, whenever he does anything, he puts his foot right in his mouth.

00:14:31.880 So he missed a number of campaign events over the last two weeks.

00:14:36.160 He finally comes out with his climate change platform proposal.

00:14:41.380 And he blew it.

00:14:44.020 He could not have bungled this any worse.

00:14:47.920 For those of you who don't remember, Biden was chased out of the 1988 presidential campaign

00:14:53.040 because he plagiarized speeches.

00:14:55.840 He was caught plagiarizing speeches, particularly from the UK Labour Party politician,

00:15:02.940 Neil Kinnick.

00:15:03.940 Here is a Neil Kinnick speech and compare that to Joe Biden giving a speech in 1988.

00:15:10.040 Why am I the first Kinnick in a thousand generations to be able to get the university?

00:15:19.660 Why is Glennis the first woman in her family in a thousand generations to be able to get the university? 1.00

00:15:27.780 Was it because all our predecessors were thick?

00:15:32.500 Did they lack talent?

00:15:34.560 Those people who could sing and play and recite and write poetry?

00:15:38.880 And I started thinking as I was coming over here, why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university?

00:15:47.660 Why is it that my wife, who's sitting out there in the audience, is the first in her family to ever go to college? 0.98

00:15:55.180 Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright?

00:15:58.400 Is it because I'm the first Biden in a thousand generations to get a college and a graduate degree that I was smarter than the rest?

00:16:05.800 Those same people who read poetry and wrote poetry and taught me how to sing verse?

00:16:12.720 Is it because they didn't work hard?

00:16:15.040 My ancestors who worked in the coal mines in northeast Pennsylvania and don't come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours?

00:16:22.040 So, obviously it's exactly plagiarized from Neil Kinnick. 0.99

00:16:25.580 You might ask yourself, what kind of an idiot would steal, almost word for word, certainly point for point, 0.99

00:16:31.980 a speech given by a major UK political leader. 1.00

00:16:35.060 What you've got to remember is this was the 80s and they didn't have the internet.

00:16:38.940 So now no one would do this because you'd find it in two seconds.

00:16:41.920 You'd Google it and you'd say, oh, there's the clip.

00:16:44.100 Back then, they didn't have Google.

00:16:46.620 They didn't have YouTube.

00:16:47.360 They didn't have the internet.

00:16:48.080 So if some guy gives a speech in England, there's no way that anyone is going to find out about that in the United States.

00:16:54.200 So they obviously stole it.

00:16:55.640 They thought they could get away with it and they didn't.

00:16:57.920 And Joe Biden also lifted lines from JFK, his brother RFK, from the 1968 Democrat candidate, Hubert Humphrey.

00:17:06.600 And he gets chased out of the race for that.

00:17:08.560 Okay, so here's Joe Biden's plan for climate change.

00:17:14.560 This is the Biden plan just released yesterday.

00:17:16.180 Okay, quote, carbon capture use and storage, CCUS, is a rapidly growing technology that has the potential to create economic benefits for multiple industries while significantly reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

00:17:30.500 Okay, now let me read to you the Blue-Green Alliance brief that was sent to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in 2017.

00:17:38.240 Carbon capture use and storage, CCUS, is a rapidly growing technology that has the potential to create economic benefits for multiple industries while significantly reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

00:17:49.000 Word for word.

00:17:51.040 Joe Biden's plan on making CCUS available, quote,

00:17:55.960 Biden's goal is to make CCUS a widely available, cost-effective, and rapidly scalable solution to reduce carbon emissions to meet mid-century climate goals.

00:18:05.720 Now, here is the Carbon Capture Coalition statement on this on the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions website.

00:18:15.480 Its goal is to make CCUS a widely available, cost-effective, and rapidly scalable solution to reduce carbon emissions to meet mid-century climate goals.

00:18:23.160 Word for word.

00:18:24.340 They just take out the word Biden's and substitute its.

00:18:27.860 History repeats itself.

00:18:30.040 This is the one thing this guy was not supposed to do, was plagiarize.

00:18:35.720 Two things.

00:18:36.300 I guess the other one is sniff women's hair. 1.00

00:18:37.660 He was supposed to not sniff women's hair and don't plagiarize.

00:18:41.440 It sunk his first major presidential race.

00:18:45.760 And one of the first things that Joe Biden does is plagiarize in 2019 for the 2020 race.

00:18:51.800 Why?

00:18:52.480 Because Joe Biden can't help himself.

00:18:54.740 He can't help but be Joe Biden.

00:18:57.280 This is who he is. 0.82

00:18:58.900 He's a plagiarizing doofus who hasn't accomplished anything in his political career.

00:19:04.340 The closest thing he has to an accomplishment, actually is a sort of legitimate accomplishment, is this 1994 crime bill.

00:19:10.440 It was a very tough crime bill that I think there's good evidence did actually reduce crime in the country.

00:19:16.420 And he actually can't run on that because now the Democrat Party hates law enforcement.

00:19:22.960 They want to abolish lots of law enforcement.

00:19:24.920 So he can't even run on that. 0.93

00:19:26.920 He's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. 0.88

00:19:28.660 He's hiding right now because he knows that when he speaks, he embarrasses himself. 0.97

00:19:32.020 But if he keeps hiding, he's going to hide himself away and lose the nomination.

00:19:35.960 Whoever dug this up, whoever figured out, whoever went to the Google machine and figured out that he had plagiarized this environmental thing is brilliant.

00:19:45.120 This was a terrific hit.

00:19:46.500 I know it doesn't seem like much that he copied and pasted from some climate website.

00:19:50.080 It's a huge hit because it reminds us of so many things.

00:19:53.420 It reminds voters Joe Biden is really, really old because he did this in 1988 before many of us were even born.

00:20:02.180 It reminds voters that he's a plagiarist, reminds voters that he's an empty suit.

00:20:07.220 He doesn't have any ideas of his own.

00:20:08.880 He just has to steal other people's ideas.

00:20:11.040 It reminds voters that he is totally unmoored.

00:20:14.660 He's unprincipled.

00:20:15.820 He'll just say whatever is going to help him get elected.

00:20:17.960 It reminds us that he's a has-been.

00:20:20.580 He's an old joke, a really great hit, really, really tough open for Joe Biden.

00:20:25.300 And it shows that I think he's pretty vulnerable in 2020.

00:20:28.980 Let's get to the biggest story of the day.

00:20:31.880 This Dutch teen, Noah Pothoven.

00:20:36.540 Noah Pothoven is a 17-year-old girl.

00:20:39.340 The story has lit social media on fire.

00:20:42.260 And there's been a lot of, not quite misinformation, but a lot of confusion out there.

00:20:46.660 So, initially, what was reported by the news outlets is that this 17-year-old girl was euthanized.

00:20:52.760 This word is important.

00:20:54.040 Was euthanized by her government.

00:20:56.800 And what is euthanasia? 0.87

00:20:57.960 Euthanasia is a ridiculous nonsense term, which means good death.

00:21:02.960 EU, the prefix you, means good. 0.93

00:21:06.280 And so when it's added to in Asia, you get euthanasia, which is the good death. 1.00

00:21:10.380 It's obviously the opposite of a good death.

00:21:13.600 It's suicide.

00:21:14.540 But this is the term, the euphemism.

00:21:18.020 Actually, euphemism, right, is EU.

00:21:20.240 It's like a good word to refer to something that is awful.

00:21:23.080 It's a soft word that covers up a harsh reality.

00:21:26.380 And so euthanasia is a euphemism to cover up assisted suicide.

00:21:30.020 And after these reports lit the world on fire, there were then other reports to correct them, which said, no, this wasn't euthanasia.

00:21:39.280 The government did not actively go in and help her kill herself.

00:21:44.580 So it's not euthanasia.

00:21:47.080 Now, that's also quibbling with the word.

00:21:52.040 What actually happened?

00:21:53.900 What actually happened is that there was this girl who was sexually assaulted when she was 11, 12 years old.

00:21:59.400 She wrote a memoir about this.

00:22:01.140 It gave her depression.

00:22:02.120 It gave her severe anxiety and anorexia.

00:22:05.700 At age 16, she requested euthanasia.

00:22:09.240 She requested for a doctor to kill her at a clinic in the Netherlands.

00:22:12.500 For the past 10 years, the Netherlands has decriminalized doctor-assisted suicide, and the practice has exploded.

00:22:19.100 So the clinic said no.

00:22:20.640 They wouldn't do it because she was too young at age 16 to request that, and her parents didn't go along with it.

00:22:28.120 Her parents didn't know about it when she made the request.

00:22:31.500 The next year, when she's 17, she decided to stop eating and die.

00:22:38.200 Now, how did she do that, you might wonder?

00:22:40.480 Didn't her parents stop her?

00:22:42.060 Didn't the government stop her?

00:22:43.780 No, they didn't.

00:22:44.580 So, what a lot of people are trying to say now is this wasn't euthanasia.

00:22:51.400 The government didn't help kill her. 0.97

00:22:53.420 Her family didn't help kill her. 0.51

00:22:55.960 Well, sure, but they didn't stop her.

00:22:58.180 They permitted her to kill herself. 0.87

00:22:59.780 The family actually bought a hospital bed to have in the home so that she could more comfortably kill herself. 1.00

00:23:05.400 Actually, the day before she killed herself, a member of parliament in the Netherlands came and visited her.

00:23:11.600 So, okay, they didn't give active support.

00:23:14.920 Well, actually, in a way, they did because they bought the hospital bed.

00:23:17.260 They made her comfortable.

00:23:18.340 At the very least, they permitted this young teenage girl to kill herself because she was depressed.

00:23:25.040 They gave her tacit support.

00:23:26.960 A member of parliament came and visited her to comfort her as she killed herself.

00:23:33.880 I guess technically this is not assisted suicide or euthanasia or whatever you want to call it.

00:23:38.460 But practically, it is.

00:23:40.240 It's the same thing.

00:23:41.220 Of course it is.

00:23:42.440 This is the culture of death taken to its logical conclusion.

00:23:45.680 And it's not just her.

00:23:46.900 Since the Netherlands decriminalized euthanasia, doctor-assisted suicide, the practice has exploded.

00:23:54.600 In 2017, 6,600 people in the Netherlands were killed through assisted suicide.

00:24:01.140 Another 1,900 people killed themselves through regular old-fashioned suicide.

00:24:05.800 And another 32,000 people killed themselves through a process called palliative sedation,

00:24:11.400 which is just when you have enough sedatives and palliative medicine pumped into your body that eventually you die from it.

00:24:17.800 It's a slow version of euthanasia and assisted suicide.

00:24:20.740 When you add all of those up, that means that well over a quarter of the deaths in the Netherlands are induced.

00:24:29.040 They are not natural deaths.

00:24:31.800 They're suicides.

00:24:32.820 When the Netherlands first legalized assisted suicide, we were told it was only for the extreme cases.

00:24:42.120 It's death with dignity.

00:24:43.800 It's a mercy killing for those handful of people who were in such immense pain. 0.92

00:24:48.980 You would be so evil if you said that the government can't help them meet a good end, have a good death.

00:24:54.760 Okay, that's how we were sold this culture of death.

00:24:57.740 Then what happened?

00:24:58.380 It moved from those extreme cases to the terminally ill.

00:25:02.760 That's a distinction.

00:25:03.760 Terminally ill, maybe you're in some pain, maybe you're not, but you're not going to recover from your illness most likely. 0.98

00:25:08.760 So, okay, then those people can be killed too. 0.94

00:25:12.240 Then it moved from the terminally ill to the chronically ill.

00:25:15.620 So this is not people who can see the end of the tunnel right there.

00:25:19.480 It's people who are just chronically ill.

00:25:21.500 They're in discomfort and pain.

00:25:23.100 And so they'd just rather not live like that. 0.99

00:25:26.000 So they'd rather kill themselves. 0.55

00:25:27.980 Then it moved on from the chronically ill to people with disabilities.

00:25:32.160 People who are crippled, who have physical disabilities or mental disabilities.

00:25:36.460 Then it moved on to the elderly, people who are just kind of tired of living. 0.99

00:25:39.880 They don't want to live anymore.

00:25:41.080 Then it moved on to people with dementia.

00:25:43.660 Then it moved on to people with mental illnesses.

00:25:45.520 83 people in 2017 were killed, were put down in the Netherlands because they were deemed to be mentally deficient.

00:25:54.260 And then, of course, it moved on to babies.

00:25:57.320 There was a case a year or two ago in the Netherlands where a woman in her 70s asked to be killed.

00:26:03.880 She said, I am requesting euthanasia.

00:26:05.740 But she had dementia.

00:26:07.160 So she'd go in and out of lucidity.

00:26:09.160 When they came in to do it, she was lying in her bed and the doctor gave her a cup of poison.

00:26:14.600 And she said, I don't want to drink the poison.

00:26:16.460 The doctor said, you have to drink the poison.

00:26:18.020 She said, no.

00:26:18.560 She pushed it away.

00:26:20.320 Doctor said, you have to do it.

00:26:22.100 She said, no, don't give me the poison.

00:26:24.280 Her family then held her down and the doctor killed her while the family held her down. 0.88

00:26:32.860 That's the logical conclusion of euthanasia, a nonsense word.

00:26:36.060 So let's say that the Dutch government didn't give formal approval for this 17-year-old girl to be killed.

00:26:45.300 They certainly gave their silent approval.

00:26:47.880 They certainly gave their tacit approval.

00:26:50.820 They probably did give their explicit approval, too, by the way, when the member of parliament came to visit.

00:26:55.200 So what should have happened here?

00:26:57.120 What role does the government have in suicide?

00:27:00.140 What role does the government have in a culture of life and a culture of death?

00:27:03.880 It ties into the debate we've been having for a week or two now on individual liberty and the true end of government.

00:27:09.660 We'll get to it in a second.

00:27:10.720 Then we'll get to how Crowder, for now, won his battle with YouTube over censorship.

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00:28:09.840 So when the girl's 16, the clinic won't kill her.

00:28:23.720 But she says she wants to die and she's going to stop eating.

00:28:27.640 What should the parents have done?

00:28:31.380 What should the government have done?

00:28:33.620 The parents should have force fed her. 1.00

00:28:35.960 What if the parents didn't want to force feed her?

00:28:39.880 Obviously they didn't. 0.54

00:28:40.700 They were going to let her kill herself. 0.92

00:28:41.900 They got her a hospital bed and made her comfortable in the apartment or in the house. 0.91

00:28:46.820 What should the government have done?

00:28:48.000 The government should have force fed her. 1.00

00:28:49.300 The government should have gone in and force fed this suicidal, depressed, mentally ill girl. 1.00

00:28:54.460 Now, this is, it takes us back to the title of the show. 0.99

00:29:00.800 This is a washed up psycho culture that would allow a depressed 17 year old girl to kill herself.

00:29:08.340 Obviously this girl experienced trauma. 0.99

00:29:10.380 She was sexually assaulted when she was 12 years old.

00:29:14.460 Awful. 0.55

00:29:15.020 Really terrible. 0.77

00:29:15.600 That does not justify killing yourself when you're a teenager.

00:29:20.320 And by the way, teenagers who have faced all sorts of traumas and sufferings,

00:29:26.580 everything from experiencing physical assault, sexual assault, death of a loved one, abuse,

00:29:32.960 all the way to just being a teenager, all teenagers go through some mental anguish.

00:29:39.280 That's the definition of being a teenager.

00:29:41.740 That does not justify killing yourself.

00:29:44.060 Suicide, as they say, is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

00:29:50.060 It is not acceptable to kill yourself in any circumstance.

00:29:56.420 That's, that's the bottom line. 0.99

00:29:58.540 It is a washed up psycho culture that thinks that it's okay to kill yourself, 1.00

00:30:03.360 that thinks it's okay for a 17 year old girl to kill yourself. 1.00

00:30:06.540 And this ties into the debate over individual liberty that we've been having for the last couple of weeks.

00:30:11.220 You know, there's this debate on the right that opened up because Saurabh Amari, the writer at First Things,

00:30:16.900 said that we need to stop only talking about individual liberty and maximizing individual autonomy.

00:30:24.320 We have to start talking about what that liberty is for, what the purpose of that liberty is,

00:30:29.200 and whether society should be oriented toward the good, toward something beyond just letting people do whatever they want.

00:30:36.920 And on the other side of that, you have the forces of liberalism, classical liberalism, modern liberalism, whatever,

00:30:42.840 which say that liberty, however you define it, is the maximum number one chief goal of society and government,

00:30:50.880 if not the only purpose of government.

00:30:53.440 Okay, so let me ask you something.

00:30:56.940 If you believe that, if you think that individual liberty, that is it, that's the be all and end all of government,

00:31:02.700 then why is this wrong?

00:31:06.060 If individual liberty is the be all and end all of government, the beginning and the end,

00:31:10.940 why is it wrong that the government allowed this 17 year old girl to kill herself?

00:31:17.500 Is it wrong? I don't know.

00:31:18.860 I asked this question on Twitter and some libertarians like Nick Gillespie over at Reason.com.

00:31:25.580 He sort of rejected my premise.

00:31:27.900 He didn't quite answer the question, but he seemed to say, no, it's not really, it's wrong.

00:31:32.500 Maybe it's wrong that she did it, but it's not wrong for the government to allow her to do it.

00:31:36.960 Now, maybe you would say, okay, it's wrong because she's 17. 0.99

00:31:40.400 And when you're 17, you can't make any decisions and you shouldn't have individual liberty.

00:31:44.920 But when you're 18, for some reason, then you get to have individual liberty.

00:31:50.060 Then you get to make your own decisions.

00:31:51.580 Then it's totally different.

00:31:54.060 When you're 17 years old and 11 months and 10 days,

00:31:58.440 then you should not be able to make your own decisions about ending your life.

00:32:02.600 But 20 days later, you should be able to make your own decisions about ending your life.

00:32:06.260 Okay, I don't think that makes a whole lot of sense, but let's say we accept that.

00:32:10.060 You take her being a minor out of this.

00:32:12.180 Let's say the girl was 18 and she was depressed and she suffered a trauma and she wants to kill herself.

00:32:19.380 Why is it wrong that the government basically encouraged her to do it? 0.74

00:32:24.340 Came over, visited her, said, yeah, it's okay.

00:32:27.520 Why is it wrong?

00:32:29.260 Why is it wrong to allow elderly people to kill themselves? 1.00

00:32:32.660 You've got some old person, a senior citizen, maybe doesn't have a lot of family left, 1.00

00:32:39.660 doesn't talk to a lot of people, gets depressed, feels a little lonely.

00:32:43.080 Or maybe does have family left and this elderly person feels that he's a burden on his family.

00:32:48.880 He's wasting all of their money and inheritance on medical care and he's just going to kill himself.

00:32:53.060 It'll be better off for everybody.

00:32:54.740 And he's decided.

00:32:55.480 He's going to do it.

00:32:56.000 He's come to this decision on his own.

00:32:57.640 He's not mentally ill.

00:32:58.860 He's just, that's his decision.

00:33:00.380 Should the government let that man do it?

00:33:05.060 Is there something wrong about that?

00:33:06.680 Maybe is it possible that the government shouldn't let that man do it?

00:33:09.500 If the government should come in and say, no, you shouldn't kill yourself.

00:33:12.940 Why?

00:33:13.960 Why is it wrong?

00:33:15.080 Why should we restrict his individual liberty?

00:33:17.900 When that elderly woman asked to be killed, the one who had dementia,

00:33:21.700 she asked to be killed, then they tried to kill her and she said no.

00:33:25.860 Which is her choice?

00:33:27.320 Which is the liberty?

00:33:28.340 The time she said she wants to be killed or the time she said,

00:33:30.380 please don't kill me.

00:33:31.080 Please don't make me drink the poison.

00:33:32.900 Which is it?

00:33:33.600 When was she exercising her maximum individual liberty?

00:33:36.420 Does it even matter?

00:33:37.980 If all that matters is individual liberty, why is suicide wrong?

00:33:45.380 So some of my libertarian friends I've been talking about this with over the last few days,

00:33:51.500 they say that suicide should not be illegal.

00:33:55.780 Does anybody really believe that though?

00:33:57.720 I've heard many of my libertarian friends say this.

00:33:59.400 Yeah, suicide is wrong, but it shouldn't be illegal.

00:34:01.620 The government should just stay out of it. 0.99

00:34:03.600 If some guy wants to kill himself, let him kill himself. 0.99

00:34:05.860 No business of mine. 0.99

00:34:07.960 It's easy to say that, but do you really believe it?

00:34:10.380 Let's say that there's a cop.

00:34:12.580 The cop is doing his nightly shift and he drives up to a bridge and he sees a suicidal man,

00:34:19.080 a suicidal 18-year-old girl standing on that bridge about to kill herself.

00:34:24.360 Does anybody really believe that the cop should not intervene?

00:34:27.960 Because if suicide is illegal, as it is in much of the United States and in the civilized world,

00:34:34.180 what the cop would do is say, don't jump, don't jump.

00:34:36.640 And he would do everything he could to come and grab her and pull her back from the edge.

00:34:39.760 And then what he would do is get her the help that she needs,

00:34:42.520 get her into a mental institution, get her into psychiatric counseling. 0.99

00:34:46.260 It's not like we're going to throw people in jail because they're attempting suicide.

00:34:50.720 But when there is a law against suicide, it allows the government to intervene.

00:34:55.100 So that's what would happen if there's a law against suicide.

00:34:58.320 If there's no law against suicide, if it's perfectly fine to kill yourself,

00:35:02.700 then when that cop pulls up on his nightly shift and sees the 18-year-old girl at the top of the bridge,

00:35:08.160 he can't say, don't kill yourself.

00:35:10.520 How dare he?

00:35:11.960 He's infringing on her individual liberty.

00:35:13.700 There's no law against it.

00:35:14.720 How dare the government presume to come in and tell that 18-year-old girl what she's going to do with her body? 0.99

00:35:20.720 Her body, her choice.

00:35:22.960 In that case, it would be profoundly wrong of the cop to try to stop her.

00:35:28.480 If anything, he should applaud her decision. 0.99

00:35:31.020 Oh, how wonderful, 18-year-old girl, that you are exercising your liberty to kill yourself. 0.99

00:35:37.440 He's the government. 0.98

00:35:38.440 He's the face of the government.

00:35:40.300 Nobody really believes that.

00:35:42.320 Nobody.

00:35:42.680 We all know on some basic level that suicide is profoundly wrong

00:35:48.440 and that if the government showed up, if the face of the government, some cop showed up

00:35:52.040 and some young girl was going to kill herself, he should do everything he could do to stop her.

00:35:55.620 This is not to say that individual liberty is a bad thing.

00:36:00.940 Individual liberty is a great thing.

00:36:03.940 Individual liberty is perhaps the most important instrument that we have in society.

00:36:09.820 Under normal operating conditions, it is terrific.

00:36:13.260 But that's not the be-all and end-all of government.

00:36:18.780 We must also be able to say that certain things are simply wrong, intrinsically evil,

00:36:25.280 contrary to civilization, contrary to society, contrary to law, contrary to liberty itself.

00:36:31.120 Even if you just look at the argument from natural rights, we have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,

00:36:39.180 you can't pursue happiness without liberty, and you can't have any liberty without life.

00:36:44.260 Because if you take away life, you take away liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

00:36:49.100 Suicide is wrong.

00:36:52.540 This is not a complicated discussion.

00:36:54.200 It reminds me, the left always does this.

00:36:57.120 They try to complicate simple moral statements.

00:37:01.960 They really try to make that.

00:37:03.140 So, for instance, they'll say, well, the suicide debate assisted suicide is really complicated.

00:37:09.200 Some people are suffering.

00:37:11.080 Right, everybody suffers.

00:37:12.240 That's not a justification for killing yourself.

00:37:15.160 Statistically, 100% of human beings who have ever lived have suffered.

00:37:19.100 Well, but it's complicated.

00:37:20.540 No, it's not.

00:37:21.080 Suicide is wrong.

00:37:22.280 Illegal immigration, it's so complicated.

00:37:25.040 No, it's not.

00:37:25.560 Illegal immigration is illegal. 0.99

00:37:27.540 Illegal is right there in the word.

00:37:29.120 It's not complicated.

00:37:30.140 It's actually the simplest issue that there is.

00:37:33.260 Don't do it and stop it from happening.

00:37:35.540 Same thing with suicide.

00:37:36.860 It is simply wrong.

00:37:38.660 A healthy and vibrant culture knows that suicide is wrong.

00:37:42.700 A washed-up psychoculture can't explain why suicide is wrong

00:37:46.560 and why that despicable member of parliament who visited that suicidal girl just before she died,

00:37:52.800 he should have stopped her, he should have grabbed her, he should have dragged her to a psychiatric clinic 1.00

00:37:56.940 and gotten her the help that she needed.

00:37:59.480 That would be a healthy culture.

00:38:00.500 Speaking of washed-up psychos, though, that Vox.com journalist Carlos Maza lost his fight for now for YouTube to censor Stephen Crowder.

00:38:11.000 You know the guy.

00:38:13.420 He was ranting and raving. 0.73

00:38:15.420 He was all upset that Stephen Crowder called him a lispy queer, even though this guy, Carlos Maza, refers to himself as a queer.

00:38:24.060 So he asked YouTube to launch an investigation.

00:38:26.520 YouTube goes and launches the investigation, and they write to him, quote,

00:38:29.300 Duh, they go on.

00:38:51.920 Opinions can be deeply offensive, but if they don't violate our policies, they'll remain on our site.

00:39:10.700 Even if a video remains on our site, it doesn't mean we endorse and support that viewpoint.

00:39:15.080 There are other aspects of the channel that we're still evaluating.

00:39:18.060 We'll be in touch with any further updates.

00:39:19.620 So they basically side with Crowder.

00:39:21.920 This kid, Carlos Maza, has a meltdown over this. 0.96

00:39:26.240 He says, YouTube hates gay people because they won't kick off the people that Carlos doesn't like. 0.97

00:39:31.840 Good for YouTube. 0.98

00:39:32.660 That's really great.

00:39:33.400 I'm glad they stood up for that.

00:39:34.540 YouTube deserves some credit for it.

00:39:36.860 Now the other shoe is dropping.

00:39:38.420 So the New York Times is reporting this headline,

00:39:40.660 YouTube to remove thousands of videos pushing extreme views.

00:39:45.440 How do you define extreme views?

00:39:46.920 Good question.

00:39:48.020 They cited Stephen Crowder as a reason for this move.

00:39:51.400 So what the New York Times wrote was in the videos, that creator, Stephen Crowder, a conservative commentator with nearly 4 million YouTube subscribers, repeatedly insulted Carlos Maza, a journalist from Vox.

00:40:02.420 So notice what they left out there.

00:40:06.680 They left out that Crowder is a comedian.

00:40:09.880 Comedians say offensive things. 0.89

00:40:11.460 If William F. Buckley Jr. were on the firing line discussing some economic treatise and he called someone a lispy queer.

00:40:21.000 Actually, he did it.

00:40:21.900 He had a debate with Gore Vidal. 1.00

00:40:24.840 William F. Buckley Jr. actually did say, listen, you queer, stop calling me a Nazi or I'll punch you in your damn face. 1.00

00:40:29.840 So he actually did it once. 1.00

00:40:31.720 They didn't take him off the air for it.

00:40:33.120 But certainly if Buckley can get away with it, comedians should get away with it too.

00:40:37.820 And they leave that out because they don't want to admit that conservatives get to have fun, that they get to make jokes.

00:40:44.060 And so they're using this as a chance to take away other videos.

00:40:48.100 And this is why I can't yet give YouTube total credit here.

00:40:51.720 I think YouTube probably felt that they couldn't take down Crowder because he's too big.

00:40:55.540 I mean, he's a huge publisher on YouTube, almost 4 million subscribers.

00:41:00.440 So now they're announcing a policy that they're going to go through and just remove extreme videos, which sounds to me like death through a thousand cuts.

00:41:08.300 And this is all about 2020.

00:41:10.080 That's what this really comes down to.

00:41:12.480 Activists are ramping up to stop Trump.

00:41:15.940 They want to stop Trump.

00:41:17.080 They want to stop Republicans.

00:41:18.840 Why are they doing it on social media?

00:41:20.400 Why are they de-platforming conservatives, trying to kick off extreme conservatives?

00:41:25.740 It's because Donald Trump won the election on social media.

00:41:28.580 He credits social media with his presidential election, obviously with the tweets, obviously with the way he personally uses it.

00:41:36.320 But also his campaign dominated on social media.

00:41:39.700 I've talked to people who have worked at YouTube and other platforms.

00:41:44.180 And the Trump campaign was just much more sophisticated at using advertising on those platforms to reach people.

00:41:51.360 The Clinton campaign was stuck in the past.

00:41:53.560 Trump was built for the social media era.

00:41:56.060 And so the social media companies are now going after Republicans and conservatives.

00:42:01.260 That is what we're going to see coming into 2020.

00:42:04.920 So while we celebrate Crowder still being on there, keep an eye out because I think the other shoe is about to drop.

00:42:11.080 By the way, I don't have a date for you yet, but you have to get your feather boas out. 1.00

00:42:15.480 Or I guess maybe not.

00:42:16.240 Maybe the opposite of your feather boas. 0.87

00:42:17.740 Because while there are gay pride parades around the country, or I guess now it's LGBTQ, LMNOP, it's fat pride, skinny pride, every single kind of pride in the whole world. 0.97

00:42:26.460 It's way beyond sex at this point.

00:42:29.040 There is now going to be in Boston a straight pride parade.

00:42:34.300 Boston officials are saying that there is a group which will hold a straight pride parade in the city over the summer.

00:42:40.000 That they have not yet been granted a permit, but that they are likely to be granted a permit, and that there will be floats, and it's going to be a very big, fun deal.

00:42:52.340 The group that's hosting it is called Super Happy Fun America.

00:42:56.780 And the VP of it, Mark Sahady, said that they're going to go all out.

00:43:03.320 Quote, if you would like to come as an individual, march as a group, or bring a float or vehicle, get in touch.

00:43:08.040 This is our chance to have a patriotic parade in Boston as we celebrate straight pride.

00:43:12.140 This is great.

00:43:13.060 This is a terrific thing.

00:43:14.860 It's not great if it were actually a straight pride parade, but that's not what it is.

00:43:20.160 You can see in the comment there, it says, we're going to have a patriotic parade by celebrating straight pride.

00:43:25.860 It's a troll, is what it is. 0.85

00:43:26.980 It's conservatives using comedy to expose the absurdity of the left.

00:43:32.480 And conservatives should do this all the time.

00:43:35.080 So, why are gay pride parades so bad? 1.00

00:43:40.160 It's not exactly the gay, it's the pride. 0.99

00:43:43.020 That's why fat pride, and skinny pride, and all the slut pride, whatever kind of pride you want to use. 1.00

00:43:47.240 Pride is awful. 0.99

00:43:48.920 And if conservatives can expose how absurd pride is to celebrate the queen of all sins by having a straight pride parade,

00:43:57.020 I think that's hilarious.

00:43:58.120 Go for it.

00:43:58.640 Conservatives need to use comedy. 0.95

00:44:00.660 That is how you expose a washed up psycho culture. 0.82

00:44:03.820 That is how you expose an absurd culture. 0.85

00:44:06.520 That is how you expose absurd politicians and absurd policies, is you laugh at them.

00:44:11.060 You don't need to get riled up and angry and scream all the time.

00:44:13.780 Just laugh at them. 1.00

00:44:15.120 Kill them with laughter. 1.00

00:44:16.320 And obviously, President Trump has done this to remarkable success. 0.99

00:44:21.120 Conservative comedians have done this.

00:44:22.480 A lot of people in the culture have done it.

00:44:23.820 We need to keep it up for 2020 and get your floats ready. 0.72

00:44:27.740 Go get your floats and your boas ready because it looks like the conservative laughs are not going to let up anytime soon.

00:44:34.940 That's our show.

00:44:35.740 Get your mailbag questions in for Thursday.

00:44:37.280 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 05, 2019

Ep. 360 - Washed-Up Psychos

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